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a real NIMBY for jayx1
this is gold, especially the reader comments below the story. the subway rerouting comment is funny.
my favourite part is the woman being quoted saying, "Not to sound like I'm bragging or anything but we have more (influence) than the average person."
hahaha...awesome. talk about an inflated ego and sense of entitlement. "I can't hear my TV". LOL!
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| Route change request sparks bus war AARON LYNETT/TORONTO STAR Sandra Cassidy stands in front of her custom-built home on Audley Rd. S. in Ajax as a bus passes by. Cassidy is lobbying Durham Region Transit to reroute the buses, which has infuriated neighbours who rely on the service. It's riders versus drivers as homeowner wants noisy public transit away from her lake-view home Aug 13, 2008 04:30 AM Carola Vyhnak Urban Affairs Reporter Every weekday morning Sandra Cassidy wakes up to the sound of the bus carrying her neighbours to work and school. "It just comes roaring down the road. We can't open our windows because of the smell and noise," says the Ajax homeowner. Over the objections of residents who rely on the service, Cassidy is lobbying Durham Region Transit to reroute the bus so it doesn't go past her grey stone house on Audley Rd. S. "We paid a lot of money to have the only custom-built home in a very special subdivision." That included a $100,000 premium to look out over Lake Ontario. "I can't even hear the TV when a bus goes by," she adds, complaining the service was "dumped on us" without warning two years ago. Her husband Wayne, a "well-respected" architectural technologist who designed the subdivision, has some clout with local politicians who know him through business and charity events, Cassidy says. "Not to sound like I'm bragging or anything but we have more (influence) than the average person." Her proposal to eliminate a two-kilometre loop has transit riders fuming. Some would have a longer walk to the bus stop, which they say poses a safety hazard in the winter. Those who live on the existing route dispute claims of excessive noise. And they argue a route change would discourage users who are trying to drive their cars less because of high gas prices and environmental concerns. "I'm acutely aware of pollution and we're trying to limit our carbon footprint as much as possible," says Dan Dascalescu, whose wife and daughter also use the bus during their daily commute to Toronto. If a shortcut is implemented, they'll be 600 or 700 metres from a bus stop and might be forced to drive in the winter because snow, ice and howling winds make it "unsafe to walk." Route 222 was added as part of Durham Region's mandate to provide service within 400 metres of customers. The bus runs every half-hour during morning and afternoon rush hours, linking the subdivision with the GO station 10 kilometres away. Cassidy believes the bus poses a safety hazard rounding the narrow corner where her house sits. It's also "mostly empty," says Cassidy, who got 75 residents around the perimeter of the loop to sign a petition to reroute the bus. "I'm sure there are a few elderly people who want it" but everyone in the area has at least two cars, says the mother of four grown children who have left home. Carol Weese, who has a bad hip and bought her house because of the bus service, waits to see it come down the street before going out to the stop. "Winter is the worst concern," she says. "The sidewalks become really treacherous." If the route changed, Weese says she'd have to wait up to 10 or 15 minutes in the cold because the bus is sometimes late. Phil Meagher, DRT's deputy general manager of operations, calls Route 222 a "good performer," averaging 34 riders per hour, compared to the standard of seven to 28. Dismissing Cassidy's safety concern, he also says the bus creates little pollution and is no more noisy than garbage trucks and school buses. "It's there to provide service to taxpayers," says Meagher, noting the Cassidys have been calling and emailing local politicians since spring. The transit commission's executive committee will consider the matter at a meeting Sept. 3. |
HOLY FUCK -- DEAL with it lady! My god!
i would only be behind the rerouting if she personally drove everyone who is going to be incovinenced by the rerouting to the nearest GO station.
otherwise, buy some fucking earplugs u bitch.
If she can afford to have her "custom house", she can afford double/triple glazed windows so she can't hear the bus. Not to mention it only comes by during rush hour!
I'd be lobbying against her living there, fucking miserable bitch.
I'm already on my way there to throw bricks through her windows
These are exactly the types of people I despise; some tinpot whoreleaf clover who stumbled upon a little luck that separated her ten steps away from living her life in the trash she deserved. I hope this revlon baby factory suffers from no less than a 5 foot wall of snow infront of driveway everyday.
If this was the neighbour my 13 yr old daughter 'banged' the window .... i be SOOO proud of her 
fawkin skunt
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| Originally posted by TranceGrooves If this was the neighbour my 13 yr old daughter 'banged' the window .... i be SOOO proud of her fawkin skunt |
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| Originally posted by smuncky lol, what's a skunt? |
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| Originally posted by VERTiG0 I'm already on my way there to throw bricks through her windows |
Yea this lady is a c-unit.
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| Originally posted by Pett im near that route next week, i'll rev up and down audley in 2nd gear a couple times in my bus |
We should start a petition and all sign it to keep the route and give a big F-U to this lady who thinks she is so high and mighty! LoL 
2 words:
C unt punch.
That is all.
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| Her husband Wayne, a "well-respected" architectural technologist who designed the subdivision, has some clout with local politicians who know him through business and charity events, Cassidy says. |
ahah
funny read 
people never cease to amaze me.
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| Originally posted by Pett im near that route next week, i'll rev up and down audley in 2nd gear a couple times in my bus |
This is beyond pathetic. I meet ****y women like this every day at wonderland. They are in a miserable mood from the get-go and nothing satisfies them. It's like their whole purpose in life is to find things that are wrong and complain.
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| Originally posted by loca |
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| Originally posted by Dr. DAS You're pretty. /off topic |
here is a better view.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v...scl=1&encType=1
make sure bird's eye view is on.
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| Originally posted by Mammoth She's taken. / off topic |
"Not to sound like I'm bragging or anything but we have more (influence) than the average person."
somebody needs a bit*h slapping, but just what does this have to do jayx1?
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| Originally posted by djeso "Not to sound like I'm bragging or anything but we have more (influence) than the average person." somebody needs a bit*h slapping, but just what does this have to do jayx1? |
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| Originally posted by Mammoth She's taken. / off topic |
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